Lose to Las Vegas and lose your division: THE NHL 2017-2018 THREAD (INCLUDING THE COYOTES SOMEHOW, PITTSBURGH HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

nm you're right, mookieproof. had it in my head reaves came over mid-season but no.

tbf everyone vegas has beaten did in fact lose their division

yeah where's the lie

75yo lou lamoriello to the islanders

The Caps are cursed.

Don’t know if I can handle ovi in a MAGA hat holding the cup

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdzU5paUwAAPCtS.jpg:small

i may never forgive stevie y for this

i dont like hockey but dc versus vegas seems like a cool final idk

no.

can’t blv it. Been going to caps games since the days before they had ever made the playoffs. How have he not found a way to fuck this year up?? Must have something big in mind for the finals.

clearly some kind of hex was placed on the posts behind holtby. all the near-misses in the first 2 periods wore the lightning the fuck out.

monday they face a buncha ex-penguins haha. we'll see!

mookie high on the lemieux crosby lyfe

i’m glad it’s two franchises that never won the cup, a whole bunch of likeable players on both sides.

o ya vegas has struggled for so long

I forgot Caps had made Stanley Cup final once before, in 1998 (where they were swept by the Red Wings)

olie kolzig and peter bondra haven't forgotten

i mean i'm for vegas if only because it might force the other 29 GMs to just throw the book out of the window and stop it with the old hockey clichés.

hah -- it would do just the opposite. 'look at this team -- no stars, don't even have a captain, just hard work and a will to win' etc etc

i want vegas to win because i live in vancouver but am not a vancouver fan and the canucks have never won and a club in its first season winning is going to upset people

ie i am a dick/troll

That was me for years when I lived in Chicago.

this thread got quiet once the finals started! the grind of playoff season got to us. i'll just put this here. enjoy!
https://www.reddit.com/r/penguins/comments/8ne6cf/ryan_reaves_crosschecks_tom_wilson_in_the_face/?st=jhw20ef4&sh=248a2245

Even on slomo replay it looked so fast. Also cheap and painful. Wld feel bad if Ovi gets no cup this year. Good series so far though

Upon further review I rescind my "cheap" comment. That was kinda awesome. Watched game at a bar w no sound on so hadn't realized who received the blow. And hadn't really picked up on Wilson's initial intentions

yeah clearly looks like wilson thought he was gonna blindside him, instead...

fuck

don't think marc andre fleury has the best playoffs save pctg anymore

Von Bondies and then The Darkness, it's 2004 at Capital One.

LVK getting run out of the rink

russia hacking the game clock

ovi reaction shots are so beautiful

lol godamnit was about to write the same joke

Glad for the Caps, glad for Ovie.

But so freaking tired of Holty’s mom

Will Mookie ever recover from this pain?

probably not : /

this joke was better:

As if a clock would ever work in Las Vegas.

— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) June 8, 2018

Also happy for Trotz.

actually, if they turn down a white house invitation, i'll recover and even salute them

still not happy about the pens going last year

Vegas crowd boo’d Bettman. They are now officialy part of the family.

Man, fuck this result

(crosspost to Canadian politics thread)

Did they boo bettman? I couldn’t hear

Yeah, a bit late but enough to stop his speech for a second.

haha that's absurd but i appreciate the effort

Last time a team didn't have an overall top 2 draft pick to win the Cup was 10 years ago, miss you Pavel.

#GoKnightsGo

— Bryce Harper (@Bharper3407) June 8, 2018

wouldnt get my hopes up about the team refusing the invite, but at least the whole team won't go:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/devante-smith-pelly-president-trump-white-house-1.4695235

I'm glad, in their season of firsts, that Las Vegas Golden Knights have learned what it is to lose the Stanley Cup on home ice.

Plain spoken Canadian boy blows past the soft language of American sports diplomacy

it would be extremely un-hockey for them not to go to the white house, but who knows

will vegas make the playoffs next year? it helps that they're in a shitty division

there's one adorable MAGA lummox but only 7 americans on the roster it is a mystery maybe Trudeau can get to them first that would be a twist